I had a heater cook some fish about a year ago. It still haunts me. I can't imagine how awful of a way to go that was. These were fish we had for a few years, that I cared enough about to bring home to medicate.
Annoyingly, the chicks that were in there were already hatched. (Thankfully...
That's good to know for the shipped eggs at least. I specifically bought an Rcom (Pro, not the Suro) so that I could incubate my pea eggs on their sides. I DID have a Brinsea too, and I had a bunch of shipped chicken eggs in there upright and it certainly helped with the air cells. However...
I've heard that peafowl need to incubate on their sides, so that is what I have always done. I don't know if that is actually true or not, I THINK I have heard of people putting them in incubators that keep them more upright (don't Sportsman's keep them more upright?).
I hatched several peafowl eggs last year with saddle shaped and somewhat loose air cells. I left them upright for a day or two I think, then laid them on their sides. One ended up malpositioned at the end, and I wasn't home to save it, but the others were just fine. I had a good hatch rate on...